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Re: former Mass. CIO look back on tenure ..

__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 12 March 2007 16:30 \__

> former Mass. CIO look back on tenure ..
> 
> 'This was the first time I had ever seen a vendor involved in efforts to
> re-charter the central IT agency, and I find that troubling'
> 
> 'You mean they weren't just attacking a policy, they were attacking the
> agency that had developed the policy?'
> 
> 'It went to that next level.'
> 
> 'There is this whole theater of me keeping Brian Burke, [Microsoft's
> Northeast] government affairs specialist, out of my office. That was
> theater for saying that this type of activity must stop'
> 
> 'I certainly saw it as a deep threat to things that I care about: the
> ability of government to act as an independent purchaser'
> 
> 'It's being perplexed as to why an American corporation would be behaving
> this way with an American state'
> 
> 'the formats were recognized as being powerful, as being worthy of putting
> into standards processes, of being unencumbered from threats of litigation
> or patent infringement kind of issues'
> 
> 'I don't see particular value in the long-term coexistence of two separate
> standards'
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2kyars
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50

I hope you don't mind, but in order to show what is/was truly happening there
I'd like to throw in some references.

>From the previous CIO....

,----[ Quote ]
|    Quinn:  Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
|    the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
|    or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
|    is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
|    Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
|    Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
|    playbook and words, in my opinion.
| 
|    Quinn:  I believe that the ODF decision will stand. I believe MS
|    will continue to do anything and everything it can to stop it. And I
|    know my seat wasn't even empty and they (MS) took another shot at
|    the title, to no avail. This horse is out of the barn and I see no
|    way for it to go back in. Remember, all we are asking for was and is
|    for Microsoft to commit to open and the standards process; so
|    everyone looks really bad if the plug gets pulled at this juncture. 
`----

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729


MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183


The Sorry State of Massachusetts
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006111603531029


Microsoft offers schools in Mass. free software (to stop ODF adoption)
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6090196.html?part=rss&tag=6090196&subj=news


Microsoft plays Massachusetts Senate card
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32515


Some more links:

Politics and tech companies: follow the money
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php

,----[ Quote ]
| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
`----

http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/


Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109


Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist disagrees with "flawed"
conclusions
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html


Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html


Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/2036223&from=rss


EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-03T134311Z_01_L03693228_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-OFFICIAL.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna


US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706


US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/


Changing the Report, After the Vote
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission


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